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Waiting for midnight, hungry families on food stamps give Walmart 'enormous spike'
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 978259:MV8xODEyODc1XzMyMDI2MTg5XzE5ODhERjYz] Food stamps may be good for some, but [i]many[/i] waste the money. In my local Circle K convenience store, where food is 2X the price of a grocery, I see people all the time buying snack food with their SNAP card, and then paying cash for a 12 pack and some lottery tickets. There is no personal responsibility for using the money wisely, and now by calling it SNAP, any stigma attached is gone. It has become a monthly debit card, use as you wish. I'm sorry, but this system needs to end. [/quote]
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At the stroke of midnight, a growing number of Americans are lining up at Walmart not to cash in on a holiday sale, but because they’re hungry.
The increasing number of Americans relying on food stamps to survive the sluggish economic recovery has changed the way the largest retailer in the United States does business.
Carol Johnston, Walmart’s senior vice president of store development, said that store managers have seen an “enormous spike” in the number of consumers shopping at midnight on the first of the month. That’s typically when those receiving federal food assistance have their accounts refilled each month.
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